Boat Race
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Singing the Blues
The Varsity Match and Boat Race are no longer part of our sporting conversation
Going deep on the river
Make no mistake, the boat race is a blood sport
The Boat Race is being steered off course
Moving the Boat Race from London to Ely is a desperate measure
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
